A Leafy Journal

Last night as I closed the blinds on our patio door I saw a larger than usual spider spinning its way down, loop across in a grand sc...

Always looking for more color in my life--including in my garden , the last several years I’ve prayed for goldfinches to come to my home...

At the end of October I dug and dug my vegetable garden plot with the only tools I had—an old army shovel, a plastic trowel and a hand cu...

What a wonderful surprise in this “new” place to find these bulb flowers popping up under a small nandina bush!   The large yellow ...

It’s been a strange winter as we’ve moved a few miles from the Central Piedmont to the Southern Piedmont where we get more snow tha...

With an ice storm last Friday and another coming soon, I couldn’t resist the dazzling yellow daffodils at the grocery; a bunch was onl...